| GODBER | John ?, author of the stage plays Bouncers and Up "n" Under (6) |
| GOVERN | Rule = "n under g"? (6) |
| RECTOR | John ?, author of the novels Out of the Black and Already Gone (6) |
| BUCHAN | John ?, author of 1915 novel The Thirty-Nine Steps (6) |
| BRAINE | John ?, author of 1957 novel Room at the Top (6) |
| FOWLES | John ?, author of the 1977 novel Daniel Martin (6) |
| TOLLER | Ernst ___, German author of the stage plays Hoppla, We're Alive and The Blind Goddess (6) |
| MILTON | John ?, author of the epic poem Paradise Lost |
| WEBSTER | John ?, author of stage plays The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi (7) |
| CASE | John ?, author of the novels The First Horseman and The Genesis Code; pseudonym of Jim and Carolyn H |
| OSBORNE | John ?, author of stage plays Look Back in Anger and The Entertainer (7) |
| ARDEN | John ?, author of stage plays Live Like Pigs and The Workhouse Donkey (5) |
| WYNDHAM | John ?, author of novels Chocky and The Day of the Triffids |
| BARTH | John ?, author of the novels The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy (5) |
| LAHR | John ?, author of the novels The Autograph Hound and Hot to Trot (4) |
| KEATS | John ?, author of poems The Eve of St Agnes and Ode on a Grecian Urn (5) |
| GRISHAM | John ?, author of novels The Broker and The Brethren (7) |
| MORTIMER | John ?, author of novels Paradise Postponed and The Sound of Trumpets |
| CHEEVER | John ?, author of novels The Wapshot Chronicle and The Wapshot Scandal |
| LUKAS | Jean-Claude van Damme's character in The Bouncer and the original title of the film (5) |
